Brazil Inflation Quickens More Than Expected After Rate Cut

Brazilian consumer prices jumped more than economists expected this month, limiting the central bank’s space to further cut interest rates to shore up growth in Latin America’s biggest economy. Yields on interest-rate futures rose.Consumer prices, as measured by the IPCA-15 index, rose 0.53 percent in the month through mid-September, the national statistics agency said today. That’s the fastest pace since May and steeper than 40 of 41 economists expected in a Bloomberg survey whose median forecast was for a 0.49 percent price rise.Prices rose 7.33 percent from a year ago, the fastest pace in six years. Inflation first breached the 6.5 percent upper limit of the government’s target range in May.“Today’s number indicates that inflation is very pressured and should be above the high end of the target range this year,” said Silvio Campos Neto, an economist at Tendencias Consultoria Integrada in Sao Paulo.